Top Law News Activists demonstrate against Punjab information commission December 20, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Right to Information (RTI) activists Monday demonstrated outside the Punjab State Information Commission here to protest delays in giving details to applicants.Carrying placards and banners against Chief Information Commissioner (CIC) R.I. Singh, the activists raised slogans against the commission. “The people who are running the State Information Commission are least bothered about the common man. […] Read more » .Chief Information Commission RTI
Top Law News Judicial panel starts hearings in Kerala boat tragedy December 20, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Almost 15 months after a boat capsized in Kerala’s Thekkady wildlife reserve leaving 45 people drowned, the one-man judicial commission appointed by the government Monday recorded statements of various officials on the tragedy.Justice (Retd) E. Moideen Kunju recorded statements of officials from the forest and tourism departments and the police besides the locals regarding the […] Read more » Kerala boat tragedy
Top Law News NHRC to raise issue of harmful effect of pesticide in Kerala December 18, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) chief K.G. Balakrishnan Saturday said that he will take up with the central government the seriousness of the impact of the use of pesticide endosulfan in Kerala villages. “The matter is serious and would be brought to the attention of the centre. Just like the way in which the centre […] Read more » effect harmful NHRC pesticide
Top Law News India asks UN to do more against sexual violence December 18, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Advocating greater participation of women in the areas of conflict prevention, peace negotiations, peace keeping and post conflict reconstruction, India wants UN organs to do more against sexual violence. New Delhi believes that the UN Secretariat and the Funds and Programmes can do more in this respect, Hardeep Singh Puri, India’s permanent representative at the […] Read more » sexual violence
Top Law News ‘Penalty imposed for denial of information unjustified’ December 18, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A penalty of Rs.25,000 imposed on a public information officer for not supplying information under the Right to Information (RTI) Act was not justified, the Gujarat high court has held. However, the officer was fined Rs.10,000 for not discharging his duty. A single judge bench of Justice Akil Kureshi passed the order while hearing an […] Read more » RTI Act.
Top Law News Distribution of gas tragedy compensation begins – but not for all December 18, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The process of distributing enhanced compensation of Rs.750 crore to the victims of the 1984 Bhopal gas tragedy has begun but it would not be for all as of now, an official said Friday. The enhanced compensation would be distributed through the claim courts, which have to complete the process by March 31, 2011. However, […] Read more » Compensation gas tragedy
Top Law News Raja was impolite to PM: Supreme Court December 18, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A Supreme Court verdict directing court monitoring of the CBI probe into the 2G spectrum scam has revealed the impolite language that sacked communictions minister A. Raja had used in a communication to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. Raja, in his November 2, 2007 communication, had rejected Manmohan Singh’s suggestion to auction 2G spectrum to new […] Read more » PM Supreme Court
Top Law News Maudany’s wife charged in bus burning case December 17, 2010 / December 17, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Sufiya Maudany, wife of jailed Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) leader Abdul Nazir Maudany, was among 13 people charged Friday by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) with waging war against the nation in the 2005 Kalamassery bus burning case. The chargesheet was filed at the special NIA court here that said Sufiya, along with another person […] Read more » Maudany wife
Top Law News Two get life term for judo coach’s murder December 17, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Two men were sentenced to life imprisonment by a fast track court here Friday for murdering judo coach Biranchi Das, who had trained child marathon runner Budhia Singh. Judge Vivekananda Das of the first track court III awarded life term to Raja Acharya and his associate Akhya Behera, special government prosecutor Sidhartha Das told reporters. […] Read more » judo coach murder
Top Law News Advanced HIV treatment is free for all, apex court told December 17, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The government Thursday told the Supreme Court that it will provide free the second line of treatment to all the HIV patients even if their initial treatment was done in private hospitals. The National AIDS Control Organisation’s (NACO) decision is a significant departure from its earlier stand that the second line treatment at its expense […] Read more » free HIV treatment
Top Law News Court for continuing graft probe against Mumbai Congress chief December 17, 2010 / December 17, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Mumbai Congress chief Kripashankar Singh Thursday suffered a setback after the Bombay High Court reviewed the status of investigations by three investigating agencies into corruption allegations against him and directed them to continue their probe. Singh, a legislator representing Kalina constituency, has been under a cloud for allegedly possessing assets disproportionate to his known sources […] Read more » Mumbai Congress chief Kripashankar Singh
Top Law News Insensitive, callous to demolish night shelters: Apex court December 17, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Pulling up the authorities, the Supreme Court Thursday said it was the responsibility of the central and state governments to ensure that no deaths occurred due to lack of night shelters and asked that two shelters pulled down in this biting winter be restored within three days. The apex court bench of Justice Dalveer Bhandari […] Read more » callous demolish insensitive night shelters